“It was devastating,” she said. “It's something you never want anyone to go through and you don't expect to go through yourself.”

Doctors told her to call Kelley’s sons in Hawaii and tell them to get on a flight. Their father had a 10 percent chance of survival.

Eleven months later, Kelley still remembers almost nothing from his brush with death in the form of a rare, deadly condition called purpura fulminans that causes your skin to rot – hands and feet first.

“Then the day I woke up, I finally realized I was awake and saw hands wrapped and feet wrapped. I had no idea this had taken place,” he said.

Kevin Kelley now uses prosthetic arms and legs to get around on a daily basis. (WFTV.com News Staff)

The former Uber driver has spent the better part of the last year getting used to a new normal; one where he remembers each morning that he no longer has limbs and straps on his prosthetics to get around.

He said he likes prosthetics that look like real feet and wears sandals so he can look down and see his toes.

“Seeing the feet makes me happy,” he said.

Kevin Kelley said he likes using prosthetics that look like real feet and wearing sandals so he can see his toes. (WFTV.com News Staff)

Out in public he said passersby often thank him for his service, thinking he lost his limbs in combat.

“I get that all the time … I always tell them, ‘Nah, I got sick you know.’”

People are even more puzzled when he tells them it all started with a case of strep.